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  2. Work (physics) - Wikipedia

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    The ancient Greek understanding of physics was limited to the statics of simple machines (the balance of forces), and did not include dynamics or the concept of work. During the Renaissance the dynamics of the Mechanical Powers, as the simple machines were called, began to be studied from the standpoint of how far they could lift a load, in addition to the force they could apply, leading ...

  3. Ansatz - Wikipedia

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    In physics and mathematics, an ansatz (/ ˈ æ n s æ t s /; German: ⓘ, meaning: "initial placement of a tool at a work piece", plural ansatzes [1] or, from German, ansätze / ˈ æ n s ɛ t s ə /; German: [ˈʔanzɛtsə] ⓘ) is an educated guess or an additional assumption made to help solve a problem, and which may later be verified to be part of the solution by its results.

  4. Initial - Wikipedia

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    A historiated initial (the letter O) from an illuminated manuscript. In a written or published work, an initial [a] is a letter at the beginning of a word, a chapter, or a paragraph that is larger than the rest of the text. The word is ultimately derived from the Latin initiālis, which means of the beginning.

  5. Work breakdown structure - Wikipedia

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    The work breakdown structure provides a common framework for the natural development of the overall planning and control of a contract and is the basis for dividing work into definable increments from which the statement of work can be developed and technical, schedule, cost, and labor hour reporting can be established.

  6. Acronym - Wikipedia

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    Acronyms are often spelled with the initial letter of each word in all caps with no punctuation. For some, an initialism [ 1 ] or alphabetism , connotes this general meaning, and an acronym is a subset with a narrower definition: an initialism pronounced as a word rather than as a sequence of letters.

  7. Initialization (programming) - Wikipedia

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    In computer programming, initialization or initialisation is the assignment of an initial value for a data object or variable. The manner in which initialization is performed depends on the programming language, as well as the type, storage class, etc., of an object to be initialized.

  8. Virgin Money chatbot tells off customer who typed word ... - AOL

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    The group said Redi was designed to augment rather than replace the work of its customer service agents, allowing the chatbot to “hand over” to a human agent if an initial query couldn’t be ...

  9. Remote work - Wikipedia

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    The United States Marine Corps began allowing remote work in 2010. Remote work (also called telecommuting, telework, work from or at home, WFH as an initialism, hybrid work, and other terms) is the practice of working at or from one's home or another space rather than from an office or workplace.